And the Winner Is...

Kathy! Congrats and thanks for entering! You'll be getting your stuff real soon :) A special thanks to all of you who read my blog and who entered!

Contest Closed....

Winner to be announcced tomorrow... :) Thanks for joining and good luck to you who entered!

Congratulations!

You do remember Roseanna White right? She guest blogged for me a while back. Well this post is to congratulate her on the completion of "Jewel of Persia"! Great Job, Roseanna, I'm looking forward to reading it!

Leave a comment congratulating her will ya? She's a really amazing person! :)

I know I know...

It's not Friday and the giveaway is not up like it's supposed to be! :) sorry... Friday turned out to be a busy day and yesterday I worked at DQ then had Christmas in July at Mam-ma and Pap-pa's.

But, I do have a giveaway... The contest is open from today until Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m. The winner will be announced on Thursday.

The winner will receive: A book for your Christmas lists... a pen of course... tired of taking the same old thing to your family's holiday get togethers? Then you'll love the Taste of Home book of fast and yummy recipes that I'm giving away... After all the shopping you'll be doing you'll need something to give you an extra boost... so you'll be getting a pack of chocolate chip cookies from Chips Ahoy... You'll also get a little surprise to help with your Christmas shopping. Leave me a comment and I'll enter you... :)

Hope you all had a blessed Lord's Day and a very Merry Christmas in July today! I have had an incredible weekend! :)


It's only 5 more days til my guy gets home! YAY!!

A Giveaway

Join me tomorrow for a a chance to win... :)

As in other news I have so much I want to share but I'm too tired tonight to try to think about how to say what I wanna say tonight! ;) soooo I'll talk to you all tomorrow!


Sleep tight my friends!

Congratulations!

Remember Stephanie(the girl I work with at DQ) and Juan?



Well... They just welcomed a precious son into their family today! Leandro Manuel was born this morning around 9:30 a.m. Mommy, Daddy, and Baby are doing great! Got to go and see (and hold of course) the baby today and he is so adorable and sweet!

Congrats Steph and Juan, you're going to be great parents!

Merry Christmas!

Yes, I know that it is July... It's the week of Christmas in July! :) I love Christmas, so I always look forward to this! This week we're going to be having all kinds of fun "Christmasy" things... maybe like a giveaway or something... you'll just have to be here to find out.

However, the one thing that will be the dominate theme is the REASON for Christmas... Jesus. He's the reason we celebrate! He's the reason we rejoice not only at Christmas but all year long!!

To kick things off here's a song from Larnelle Harris entitled: All year long.

I realize that I'm not a father and never will be of course... :) but it's the message of the song that I want you to see with me. Jesus isn't packed away with all our Christmas belongings, He's here with me all year long, and He always will be as long as I stay close to Him and dwell ALWAYS in His presence.

All Year Long


He braced the old ladder with all of His might
And shouted, dad have no fear
As I stretched high to store the stockings and trim
In the attic for another year
We were busily packing our Christmas away
While singing a carol we knew
When I heard my son in innocence inquire
Do we store away Jesus too

Chorus
All year long
We must worship day by day
All year long
Tis the season to obey
May the Christmas tree lights
And the sleigh rides at night
Remind us all to stay in God's presence
All year long

I smiled at my boy as again I explain
God's longing to reconcile
How He gave to the world the gift of new life
When His yearning became Mary's child
Though surrounded by all of man's goods we embrace
The hope of that Bethlehem night
We will never store this blessed gift away
With the tinsel and colored lights

Chorus
All year long
We must worship day by day
All year long
Tis the season to obey
May the Christmas tree lights
And the sleigh rides at night
Remind us all to stay in God's presence
All year long